Sarah Ferguson “won’t be hiding away” and plans to make a comeback despite her humiliating fall from grace amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, sources have claimed. Once a vibrant fixture of the global elite, the former Duchess of York now seems to be a mere shadow of her former self, increasingly abandoned by the very social webs she once navigated with ease.
Charities severed ties with her and she’s lost her title and home due to her links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The latest slap in the face for Fergie, as she is otherwise known, came last week, when the US Department of Justice released more than three million documents relating to the late US financier, in which she featured prominently. While her former husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has found refuge in one of the King’s properties within the Sandringham Estate, little is known about Fergie’s plans for accommodation and overall future.
But sources said this will not be the end for Ms Ferguson, who plans to take some time off and come back to Britain stronger.
A source close to her told the Daily Mail: “Well, she won’t be hiding away.
“It is not her style. It’s true she needs some space now; this whole saga has dominated her life for the last five years, making it impossible for her to think about anything else.
“She has been in the middle of it all and it has undermined her resilience.”
Ms Ferguson is reported to be thinking about spending some time in Australia with her sister, Jane and the source added that time away from Royal Lodge and away from Andrew would be “reputationally freer”.
However, she reportedly wants to continue to live in Britain in the future, with sources pointing towards the Windsor areas, where she wants to find a place to rent or buy and “rebuild her life” and “start again”.
It comes as a PR expert said that Ms Ferguson, unlike her ex-husband, could make somewhat of a comeback in the future, only if she follows a particular strategy.
Renae Smith, founder of PR and branding agency The Atticism, told the Express that the former duchess should lay low and show “restraint, dignity, and distance”.
Being mentioned in the Epstein files does not suggest any wrongdoing.